Will Star Wars still rule the galaxy?

A long time ago, in a sunny state far away – a certain announcement caused nerds everywhere to feel their heads implode.

The announcement this week that Disney had purchased Lucasfilm – essentially buying the ‘Star Wars’ franchise – had fans of the film series every where shrieking in dismay.

“No, that’s not true! That’s impossible!”

I include myself in the dismayed camp.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love ‘Star Wars’ and I love ‘Disney’ – I just don’t want the two franchises to be run the same way, though.

I think most fans – yes I would be one of them – had horrific nightmares of the Emperor conspiring with Captain Hook while Luke started using the Force to make teacups sing and dance on the Millenium Falcon – where Beast and Chewbacca found out they were long lost brothers – all the while Yoda and Mickey had a smack down for puppet supremacy.